/dwm

dwm build with patches & QoL improvements

Primary LanguageC

dwm

dwm is an extremely fast, small, and dynamic window manager for X. This fork includes some patches available at suckless.org and some other self-made patches and QoL improvements.

Requirements

In order to build dwm you need the Xlib header files.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dwm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dwm (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running dwm

Add the following line to your .xinitrc to start dwm using startx:

exec dwm

In order to connect dwm to a specific display, make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:

DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm

(This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)

Configuration

The configuration of dwm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.

References